Magnificant Views at Mt. Coot-tha and a Coffee with Great Company at Brisbane Botanic Gardens

Sunday 6 July 2008

Working half a day on keeping up on my blog (I intend to finish writing a report and summary on teaching practices, teaching materials, and activities conducted in the classes during my visit before I return home). Then, Judy called up and invited me to go out. We then ended up going to Mt.Coot-tha and Brisbane Botanic Gardens. The two places are breathlessly exquisite, even better with the wonderful company! Before they arrived my place, I went groceries shopping and got some snack for all of us. This snack has been very popular here in my area. It's called Crispy Pancake. It comes in different fillings such as taro, chocolate, red beans, vanilla, peanuts, coconut and much more. They are not "copy righted" just yet, so I guess I could perhaps tell my friend, a snack vendor's owner, to sell them in our canteen at SPU!They would certainly become a hit!!!

We drove through "The Sand-Stone University" or University of Qeensland. I could not help, but jumped off the car to take the photos of the campus. The buildings are extremely beautiful. It seemed as if I had been in English or in some European country somewhere. I like the campus big time. UQ is one of the top three universies in Australia. There are many Thai students here as well. The campus is huge and very impressive!

We stayed at the hilltop for a while then we hit the road to the gardens. The gardens are just absolutely beautiful. There are a big variety of trees and flowers. They even still have a tree that nearly becomes extinct . It looks like a pine tree that could be seen back in the dinosour era. How amazing! Too bad, though, I forgot to take a photo of it in a cage. We saw a married couple having wedding photos taken there as well. I could not help but thought how strange it was to see the wedding dresses of the bridesmates and groommen were in all black! Very different indeed. Anyway, there in the park, we walked for a while before we decided to sit down and had a cup of coffee and a talk.I think I became Australianized by just drinking coffee (being addicted to it).

It was a another great weekend! I'm loving it!